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November Events...

  • Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF)
  • Afrikamera
  • BIGff: Bari International Gender Film Festival
  • Bradford Queer Film Festival
  • Chéries-Chéris
  • East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
  • ENDIMARIS - Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival
  • Esslingen Queer Film Festival
  • FACE à FACE
  • Fancinegay
  • Feast Festival
  • Filmový Festival Inakosti - Slovak Queer Film Festival
  • Florence Queer Festival
  • Holebi Filmfestival Vlaams-Brabant
  • Holebi Kort
  • Homotopia
  • image+nation
  • Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
  • Kansai Queer Film Festival
  • LesGaiCineMad
  • Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  • Melt Open
  • Mezipatra Queer Filmový Festival
  • MIX NYC
  • MixBrasil Sexual Diversity Film Festival
  • OFN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival
  • OutfestNEXT
  • OutReels Cincinnati
  • Pink Panorama LesBiSchwules Festival Luzern
  • Pink Screens in Brussels
  • Queens World Film Festival
  • Queer Film Festival: Playa del Carmen
  • Queersicht Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Bern
  • Queerstreifen Münster
  • Queertactics
  • San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
  • Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival
  • USN – Sardinia Queer Film Expo
  • ZE Festival
Merlinka International Queer Film Festival

Merlinka International Queer Film Festival

Thursday, 11 December 2025 until Sunday, 14 December 2025

International queer film festival Merlinka is organized every year from 2009 in Belgrade Serbia. For seven days we screen short, documentary and featured LGBT-themed films.

Only gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual-themed films.


Awards & Prizes

Dorothy's slipper award for the best short queer film:

2024 - Buffer Zone by Savvas Stavrou
2023 - Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang
2022 - The Hunt by Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
2021 - Path of a ghost by Namo Safideen
2020 - Fabiu by Stefan Langthaler
2019 - Dante vs. Mohammed Ali by Marc Wagenaar
2018 - Whole by Slava Doytcheva
2017 - The Fish Curry by Abhishek Verma
2016 - Dove by Konstantinos Chaliasas
2015 - 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B by Cristine Berglund, Sophie Vukovic
2014 - I call it love, directed by Elsy Hajjar; Through The Mirror, by Breech Asher Harani
2013 - Camionero by Sebastián Miló
2012 - I’ve Only Just Begun by E.
2011 - Frischluft Therapie by Christoph Scheermann
2010 - Tools 4 Fools by Kate A. Brandt